What Did a Man at Arms Wear? | 15th C | Wars of the Roses 

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Just a quick note, his kit is well distributed about his body. Much of the modern kit is held, or strapped to the back, making it feel worse...

Roger that, sir! Agreed 100% from a fellow veteran on the other side of the pond.

In Basic in 84, I remember at first not being a fan of all of the pouches on my LBE. That, and my steel pot. Ha ha.

I imagine there wasn't much to do in medieval times and having a craft to keep you occupied like that was more tolerable than it would be for modern people.

Honestly... After watching LindyBeige newer video about getting his full suit of Armour... FINALLY...After YEARS... YEARS

Also, as the Production of the Lord of the Rings showed (& did), it was more of a Medieval Assembly Line. Back then some Apprentices made the wire, another group of Apprentices cut them to length, then a 3rd Group made the wire lengths into loops, Then the Armorer assembled the loops and interconnected them, then Riveted them! (In the larger shops, for a high enough person, the Journeyman interconnected the loops, and the Master Armorer Riveted them!!) Of course the size of the Groups of Apprentices and Number of Groups could vary with a smaller number having to do more than one task........

@@timengineman2nd714 you really believe that.??? Don't get me wrong, I totally get what you mean and why you say it, but I'm thinking that is a bit to narrow scoped. Or more a certain situation. U believe what you say is true but... That is more an example of the Nobility, or maybe large cities, or those places with greater wealth... I'm fairly certain that the MAJORITY of cases, that is not the way. Most are smaller villages, not so many "helpers" of any kind. It was more, just the Smith, his Hammer and a 'quaint little forge'. Yes. He probably had an apprentice... Maybe two or so, but that's kind of it. Or... A couple small Forges in an area... And all of them sort of fighting to. . . Well, to survive really. And to see who gets the better reputation. From what I have learned watching these channels, and reading and such. I'm fairly certain TLOTR would be representing the Minority of situations. But yes. Sir what you say is true, at time... LOTR is a good representation of very certain situations.

@@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 Yes, I was thinking of the larger cities and upon occasion the "big names" in armor making of the time. My understanding is/was that the local (& small) Smitty would be more for maintenance and repairs .vs. making a whole new large piece of armor. Let's face it, although it was well known by blacksmiths of that time how to make Chainmail, you're talking about getting the Iron Ore, making Wrought Iron, making that into Wire, making that into Rings, "Weaving" i.e. Connecting the Rings together, Riveting the Rings, by the hundred if not the thousands to make a large piece of chainmail! I doubt that any village Blacksmith could actually do that in a timely manner and still do all of the other repairs and manufacturing that was required by the village, especially during harvest time!!

Great video as always

i bet that a knight who has dropped his armor should be spared in the battle :D

@@vihreelinja4743 well of course he should. Just like any combatant who dropped his arms and decided to end the battle due to injury. But like today, it's only in theory and hardly a guarantee that everyone played by the rules

Thanks John 👍🏻

Yes, the weight is quite equivalent.

Ive watched a video and the reckon the soliders carry weight hasn't much change from Roman time to now

The weight is more evenly distributed than modern soldiers

Thanks so much, I appreciate it!! Do you go by another name on Patreon?

@@thehistorysquad you are most welcome! And I am Patrick Mourin on patreon. =)

​ @Mandalorian Actual Perfect, now I know - thanks Patrick 👍🏻 I've given you a shout out in one of my UK videos that'll be coming up over the coming month.

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.......and very tall! I'm very proud indeed 👍🏻

Great analogy Phillip, & thank you 👍🏻

Cheers Wayne, yes, Dressed to Kill is the business name of the armourer who made my knight lights 😉

So... What I was told... Is that the number of "lances" or "knights" either could or could not include their household combative retinue.. So in any given battle, a knight or lance may be anywhere from a minimum of two men - although all of them might not be exactly engaged in combat at any given moment... You'd have to have someone to provide spare lances at a minimum.... And most knights would have at least some men at arms who could function either on foot or mounted, from my understanding... And sometimes basically everyone would fight on foot anyhow just to confuse everything, particularly the English - who, I may note, also had mounted archers - not not horseback archers, that I know of, but definitely horse mobile archers (I found that very interesting, kinda like pulling artillery with a vehicle in modern combat.)

Great comment Brian, thanks 👍🏻

​@@brianknezevich9894So the archers were dragoon infantry effectively. Mounted for mobility and posibly logistics but fought on foot. The horses were for escape or maneauver, otherwise with the bagage. One of Kevin's videos talked about number of horses for a Knight. So that would be Charger to fight the battle, Palfry to ride to the battle and Courser to run away from a defeat. Likely they would have two of each. So that is one Knight by himself, plus the servants and pack animals and posibly wagon for them. It all adds up. This is what you call a Lance fournie. There had to be enough palfries for all the unit to travel to battle, the Man-at-Arms/Knight [Heavy Cavalry] and the Sergeant/Coutilier [Lighter infantry] (France) would be expected to fight mounted on chargers and have the escape courser. There would be a page/squire to assist the man-at-arms with extra equipment and some archers to fight as infantry. So if you had 2 cavalry and 2-4 infantry and some servants this becomes a mixed unit with inbuilt logistics. The French had companies of 100 Lances so that is a variable sized mixed unit with effectively circa 100 heavy cavalry/or heavy infantry if dismounted, 100 lighter cavalry/or lighter infantry if dismounted and 200-400 archers with 100-200 servants and 1,000 horses. It makes sense to have the connected archers to provide a retreating skirmish line for the cavalry or even enfilade fire to the battle line. There is a nice little article on Wikipedia for how certain areas did their Lance fournies.

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Glad you enjoyed it!

Cheers! You may know I was used by Bernard as research for this series and now with my (slightly) advancing years I'm quite happy to be imagined in the boots of old Will 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad that’s awesome! Did archers really burn their old bows to send them to hell?

@@cholulahotsauce6166 No, just to keep their hands warm 😉

@@thehistorysquad as someone who’s currently reading the series this makes me love it even more! That’s amazing.

Definitely Old Skeat! ;) Do you swear like him off camera? 😂

That's great to hear, thanks for sharing. Interestingly, I used to live in England near the village of Penn in Buckinghamshire. The vault of the church had the family all neatly stacked up in coffins of William Penn, whom I believe to be the founder of Pennsylvania. 👍🏻

Thanks. We'll have another film on the weapons coming up in a few weeks 👍🏻

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Thanks very much for the visit, I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻

To say armour had not advanced much in 1000 years is about as wrong as you can possibly be

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Cheers Joseph & good luck with your writings 👍🏻

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@@thehistorysquad you don’t realize how happy this just made me, greetings and much love from America!

Wasn't it a great collaboration 😉

Cheers David, we think so too, we hope to see more of them next spring 👍🏻

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That's for sure, it was a lovely day & we got lots more footage to share too 👍🏻

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@@thehistorysquad Loving them, squad!

I did, thank you. We have a few more of these videos to come, but the rest of our time was spent catching some quality time with family and friends 👍🏻

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It takes about half the time as you can just undo the ties and let It fall off.

Thanks for your input Josh 👍🏻

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I know right? It's been a crazy few months watching the channel grow as quickly as it has. Thanks as every for your support Kiwifruit 👍🏻

Cheers Arthur - keep well 👍🏻

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Wow, thanks Chris, I'm speechless 👍🏻

Cheers buddy, I hope so, I'm having a blast and hope it continues 👍🏻

Glad you enjoyed it, cheers.

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Excellent, good luck!

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I certainly did, thank you 👍🏻

You bet!

Well said!

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Cheers Pete!

Please do, they're a good bunch 👍🏻

Great, there'll be more to come

Thank you! We did manage to shoot some more footage and that will be released over the coming weeks 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad Brilliant, will look forward to it! Cheers! :)

Cool, cheers Jon 👍🏻

It really is. When I go back to the UK, I'll be sure to do some more 👍🏻

U doing one with the Warwicks they did a good show at avonscroft on the multiperiod in March.

@@leithafae All my WW1 kit was in Canada 😉

@@thehistorysquad ah fair/ oh well if u ever fancy trying an american rev war event. I am i a group called redcoats and revolutionaries who are great with loan kit for new people. Its a really laid back group and be good to see you again.

Thanks! I am really interested in that era, I used to portray a redcoat at Blenheim Palace. Where are you based?

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That's great to hear, thanks very much 👍🏻

Thanks for the visit

Thanks again Will!